Is Ambition Justified In Macbeth

Human ambition is often a double-edged sword, on which many people fall. Without drive, humanity would be lost in the dark ages, doomed to stagnate. However when ambition is left unchecked, humans pay a grave price. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the tragic characters often have ambition to thank for their fatal or perilous ends. Ambition cannot exist in a pure form, free from consequence because there will always be a dark path to take that might seem to be justified by the ends. The natural order of humanity is disrupted once Macbeth indulges his ambitions. In addition, Macbeth begins to lose sight of what he wanted and what he aspired to be originally. He reaches a place of no return. In the end, Macbeth and his wife along with the whole of Scotland suffer due to his uncontrolled and dark
She is a broken record, on the verge of shattering completely. Outside the castle, Malcolm and Macduff recognize the pain of the citizens of Scotland. They know that the only way to end it is by cutting off the head of the snake that is Macbeth. Bleed, bleed poor country: great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, for goodness dares not check thee. (4.3 36-42)

Macduff had fled to England to join malcolm against Macbeth. To him, Scotland is bleeding, wounded by tyranny. He will not be the villain, as he further explains, but he will be the saviour. He makes this statement a reality by killing Macbeth. The bleeding of Scotland has stopped.

Ambition is proven in Macbeth to be unable to exist without mortal or supernatural consequence when unnatural advancement is punished. The hierarchy of humanity is interrupted, Macbeth loses sight of what it was that he truly wanted and as a result, both he and his wife as well as the whole of Scotland suffer. The ambitious among humanity are both blessed and cursed. They are the ones who keep the world moving, but they are the first to fall should they